Training little boys

#109 - Chores

One of the things I feel strongly about is children having responsibilities at home - helping keep the house neat and clean.  Since this is something I really struggle with, I want to instill this in them at an early age.  

Every morning Most mornings we get dressed right away and the boys put their pajamas away and make their beds (pull up the comforter).  At night after getting our pjs on the boys put their clothes in the appropriate bin in the laundry room (darks, lights, whites) - by the way their clothes are always dirty at night.  

Carter has been emptying the silverware container out of the dishwasher each morning for 6 months or so but I thought it was time to move on.  

Now after breakfast Caleb empties the silverware and Carter wipes the table off and vacuums under the table, pulling out the chairs so he can get ALL the crumbs.

"the habits of the child produce the character of the man . . .every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend."  Charlotte Mason

"The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secrures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children."     Charlotte Mason

This is what we are focusing on right now.  Carter may still not know all his letters and can't write his name, but those are things that are easily learned later.  Right now I am "laying down the rails" for "smooth and easy days".

And making some lucky lady a great husband :)